Europa Universalis II

Are there any fans of the Paradox Entertainment's great game? I'm a huge fan. I usually play the Grand Campaign (1419-1820). Among the many nations I've played with, my favorites and most successful were the Ottomans, the Portuguese and the Papal States. I've also played with Nippon (Japan), Byzantium and the Moors from Granada but it wasn't that good.

What are your favorites sides and campaigns (if any)?

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Europa is flawed genous, such a great game, so many bugs and stablitiy issues.  SInce Ive beaten it as most of the major nations (China, Portugal, England, Ottomans, Venice, Muscovy etc) Im now in my play as the underdog phase where I play as native American tribes, small southeast Asian counties and African states and try my best to be a big power, Im getting good at it, my Malacca game is like a trans-polynesia pacific empire of spice!

Originally posted by Tobodai Europa is flawed genous, such a great game, so many bugs and stablitiy issues.� SInce Ive beaten it as most of the major nations (China, Portugal, England, Ottomans, Venice, Muscovy etc) Im now in my play as the underdog phase where I play as native American tribes, small southeast Asian counties and African states and try my best to be a big power, Im getting good at it, my Malacca game is like a trans-polynesia pacific empire of spice!

Well, the later patches have neither bugs nor stability issues, you could try downloading those.

What happened with the forum MP people were talking about a long time ago, BTW?

It's a great game!

I usually play as Russia (Muscovy), the Ottoman Empire, Sweden, Poland or Austria. I have also tried nations like Spain, England, France, China... and of course Denmark (Denmark-Norway )

I don't really play the Grand Campaign, I usually just begin with "the Age of Exploration" because I feel I just spend the 100 first years of the Grand Campaign not doing anything like builidng things and get new technology!

Yeah, and investing the money right is crucial too, what to research, when to manualt send out merchants (don't use Auto-manage, its crap).
Havn't played the game in a while though, and have lost all the saved games. Serves me right for rarely finishing games that i start. Meh.

Heres a map of an (almost) unified Papal Italy:


A weak France, a divided Spain, with a weak Castile and Argon dominant, and Grenada still surviving. And Uber Lorraine. And look, Gibralter is English
That game was full of wierdness, The Papal states were by far the dominant coloniser in the Americas, with only Carribean Islands and bits of Brazil claimed by anyone else. Hmm, i might be able to salvage it of the other hard drive, hmmm

P.S. Notice the mini-map of the world in the bottom left corner


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Yeah, it looks better no?
It changes the colours of the continents IIRC, making them more visible. I have it zipped somewhere, its on the EU forums, but in some obscure thread. Meh, if you want it ask.

I have a really big problem with the colonization success. The percentage of success bacame after some time very low -  only 1%. My provence munnber is really big - about 150. How cann I change this?

Thanks Cywr! Does anyone know where can I find a good help for EU2, a link or something like that.

Europa Universalis(1 & 2), Hearts of Iron(1 & 2), Victoria...
Paradox is making the best historical-games ever done. EU2 has given me a lot of hours of gaming with computer or other humans.

Problem.

I'm playing Spain, Portugal is my Vassal for more than 20 years. I'have set my relations up to +199, but I still can not annex the country. The Annex-button is simpy not active! Why is that? We have the same religion and all that stuff.